I did some looking into the salt pans recently, 40km^2 and produces around 650,000 tonnes per year. It's some of the highest-quality sea-salt in the world and is used to make soda ash for glass manufacturing and sodium bicarbonate for things like baking and kidney dialysis(!). It's the only one in ...

There seems to be a considerable amount of land, not far from the CBD, that I've not even heard mentioned when land shortage is discussed. Considering the debate over urban sprawl and land prices, I imagine there are very good reasons for this, which have just escaped my attention. Could someone tel...

Hi, I've just registered, been following the forum for a while now. I remember a mention in the Advertiser of the new tramline bridge crossing South Road and it came up in BillD's post again. I came across this unusual sight at the South Rd / tramline crossing. Core samples are being taken for the n...